I’ve used Beeminder to make sure I was walking an hour a day, developing Quantified Mind for three hours a week, and working on the Skritter iPhone app for sixty hours a week. Many use it to lose weight, to exercise, to drink less, to work more, to keep their inboxes clear, to waste less time surfing the web, and to quit smoking. Most goals are a matter of effort over time, and for those types of goals, if they’re important enough to warrant thirty seconds of bookkeeping a day, you should use Beeminder